One of the best Polish drummers together with sampling master. Sobura and Teielte, after a few concerts as a warm-up, are scheduled to release their first album in February 2017. Read more »about: Sotei

They transform traditional Polish songs into Kujawski swing, and they mix folk songs, whispers and shouts with sounds of…a grater, a knife being sharpened or a bathtub being filled with water. The original trio - Sutari - is gaining popularity on the folk scene with their modern interpretations of old songs. Read more »about: Sutari

Composer; he combined the impact of harmony with an active melody to give his "impressionism" an individual mark, one that distinguished him from other European composers adhering to the trend. Read more »about: Karol Szymanowski

Sculptor and artist. Born on May 19, 1926, in Kalisz and died on March 2nd, 1973, in Praz-Coutant, France. Szapocznikow was one of the most original woman sculptors in contemporary art. Inspired by the personal experience of her long battle with a fatal illness, she created a visual language of her own to reflect the changes going on in the human body... Read more »about: Alina Szapocznikow

Mikołaj Stroiński was born in Kenya, raised in Poland, and lives and works in Los Angeles. He is a composer. He writes music for films, TV series and video games; his body of work consists of more than 6,000 pieces of music. Read more »about: Mikołaj Stroiński

Marysia Stokłosa is a leading figure in Polish contemporary dance - an improviser, experimenter and intellectual. She has cooperated with outstanding artists from all around the world and performed on the most celebrated stages of New York, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Berlin, Brussels and London. Read more »about: Marysia Stokłosa

Born in 1987, Sos Sosnowski, known as Mikołaj Kamiński, is one of the most prominent figures on Polish independent game dev market. Uncompromising rebel against stale conventions set in stone amongst game creators, sceptic not afraid to mock even the oldest traditions, and, what’s more, a person responsible for creating a game about finding a needle in a haystack. Read more »about: Sos Sosowski

Composer and lawyer, Marcin Stańczyk writes instrumental, stage and intermedial music. He is the first, and so far only, Pole to have received the prestigious Toru Takemitsu Award (2013). Read more »about: Marcin Stańczyk

A pioneer and a virtuoso of time-lapse puppet films, the first Polish animator and one of the first animation makers in the world, Władysław Starewicz was an ingenious experimenter, an expert in novel special effects and an enthusiast of entomology. Read more »about: Władysław Starewicz

One of the pioneers of contemporary electronic music on a global level, he has been making music for more than 20 years, experimenting with analogue machinery to produce a unique sound that goes beyond the club. Read more »about: Jacek Sienkiewicz

Yehudi Menuhin came to Poland in April of 1984 and was thrilled by what he encountered. Immediately he signed on to be a regular guest conductor for the Sinfonia Varsovia. Read more »about: Sinfonia Varsovia

Dancer, choreographer, performer. She has collaborated with dancers from the legendary group of William Forsythe and with the eccentric Flemish artist Jan Fabre. Apart from performing contemporary dance pieces she has also danced ballet, jazz and popular social dances: waltz, rumba, jive and cha-cha. “I do my thing” – the artist emphasizes in interviews. Read more »about: Iza Szostak

If there was a Champions League for record producers, Ross Robinson would be playing in it every year. So if Robinson says that he’s recorded an album of a great band, it’s best to get ready for listening. Read more »about: Semantik Punk

Małgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk is one of Poland’s leading contemporary dramatists, librettists and dramaturgs. Restless and ambitious, her writing and interests are continually on the move including documentary theatre, original plays, collaboration, adaptation, and contemporary opera. Read more »about: Małgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk

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